Closed-loop firing
Autonomous burning-zone control with graduated autonomy you can dial up as trust grows.
Control core · Clinkum ecosystem
Pyron
The autonomous burning zone. Every kiln, fired right.
- Burning-zone target
- 1,450°C
- Payback
- 90 days
- Loop
- closed
The problem
Why Pyron exists.
The rotary-kiln burning zone is the hardest control loop in heavy industry. Operators hold clinkering near 1,450 °C by feel, and a small drift in feed, fuel, or oxygen makes weak clinker, wrecks refractory with rings and balls, or trips the kiln. Alternative fuels make the flame harder to read, and the veteran operators who run it are retiring.
What it does
How it works.
Pyron runs the raw mix and the pyroprocess as one closed loop. It proportions the kiln feed for stable chemistry, then controls the calciner, feed rate, fuel, oxygen, flame, and alternative-fuel firing to form the target clinker phases. It fuses burning-zone camera vision, DCS telemetry, and online-analyzer chemistry, and writes setpoints back under human checkpoints with a full audit trail.
What Pyron does on the line.
Six capabilities, all sharing Clinkum's plant-edge platform, cement models, and audit trail.
Stable feed
Raw-mix proportioning and raw-mill fineness control that keeps the kiln feed on chemistry.
Alt-fuel, held steady
Waste, RDF, and biomass co-processing fired hard without losing the flame.
Early warning
Rings, balls, and coating loss flagged before they force a stoppage.
Burning-zone vision
Flame shape and clinker texture read live from the hot end.
Assurance built in
Human checkpoints, an immutable log, and an on-prem option.
Where it fits
One product in a closed loop.
Pyron is the control core of Clinkum. It acts on Clinvue's quality signal, gets validated in Cemtwin, is tuned by Carbex for energy and CO₂, inspected by Refron, and hands strength targets downstream to Pourix.
Runs on: Jetson Orin/Thor for edge vision, L40S for the plant optimizer, DGX for fleet training.
Built for
Who uses it.
Process and production engineers, kiln operators, and plant managers at integrated and grinding plants, from regional producers to global groups.
See the platformPut Pyron on a kiln.
Start with one line, prove the ROI in a quarter, then expand across the fleet.